THE FROGS, 



December. 



THE columns of 

 the Times of 

 India I have 

 had a public in- 

 vitation from 

 "Sarus" to des- 

 cant upon frogs. 

 I had thought 

 tn pass the vile 

 batrachians by, for I love them not. Besides, now is not 

 their time. The hot sun has been boiling down the tanks 

 until the infusion of frog is getting thick, and the water- 

 snake grows fat on much to eat and little to do. So the 



